Teaching Gallery: Picturing Poverty

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

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Teaching Gallery: Picturing Poverty
October 9, 2007–October 28, 2007
White Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Selected for Hemenway, LA&S 301 Learning Communities Seminar: End of Global Poverty in conjuction with End Global Poverty Week (Oct 15th -19th). Students in learning community contacted the museum to work with us on this topic and they promoted the installation campus-wide.

Works of art

This I Believe, Norman Strike (born 1949)
Norman Strike (born 1949)
At the Time of the Louisville Flood, Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971)
Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971)
The Unsafe Tenement, James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
The Gleaners, Jean François Millet (1814–1875)
Jean François Millet (1814–1875)
The Gleaners, 1856
The family of a migratory fruit worker from Tennessee now camped in a field near the packinghouse at Winter Haven, Florida, Arthur Rothstein (1915–1985)
Arthur Rothstein (1915–1985)
Asleep on Fire Escape During Heat Spell, Weegee (1899–1968)
Weegee (1899–1968)
untitled, Jim Goldberg (born 1953)
Jim Goldberg (born 1953)
untitled, 1979
Unemployed Man, Cologne, Gunther Sander; August Sander (1876–1964)
Gunther Sander; August Sander (1876–1964)
Robert Evans and his family, Diane Arbus (1923–1971)
Diane Arbus (1923–1971)
The da Silva Family at Dawn, Gordon Parks (1912–2006)
Gordon Parks (1912–2006)
Madonna of the Tenement, Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940)
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940)
New York, 1956-58 (This woman received $30.00 per month in Social Security benefits. She paid from it her rent and utilities. One dollar was left over on which she lived. She was seeking old age...), Marion Palfi (1907–1978)
Marion Palfi (1907–1978)